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The Creative Mind
Archives for Month: March 2016

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Our Messy Emotions and Being Creative

By Douglas Eby

Does being calm or happy help us be creative? Does feeling sad or anxious always inhibit creative thinking? Some researchers find that “mixing together both positive and negative emotions can…

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Take A Shower or Watch Cows To Be Creative

By Douglas Eby
Take A Shower or Watch Cows To Be Creative

Do you get creative ideas in the shower? Do you have any routines or schedules to help encourage your creative thinking and work? Many artists do. But E. B. White (Stuart…

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Psychological Androgyny and Creative People

By Douglas Eby

“A writer should be woman-manly or man-womanly…” Virgina Woolf Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains that psychological androgyny refers to “a person’s ability to be at the same time aggressive and…

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Does Being Neurotic Help Us Be More Creative?

By Douglas Eby

Woody Allen admits he has “a lot of neurotic habits. I don’t like to go into elevators, I don’t go through tunnels, I like the drain in the shower to…

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